 Hi, welcome back. Right, so we were looking at the, asking the question, you know, what does it mean to be rooted in him? And you were answering. Yeah. Coversions six, sorry, questions two, six. So you're saying, yeah, reso. So what does it mean to be rooted in him? I mean, rooted means grounded. So what does it mean to be hidden in him? Yeah, okay, we just give him the mic. Like, yeah, I get that. The deep roots when we are in construction, we will do this boars foundation and all right. So our basement, or our, how can we value us morals should be, I mean, rooted means that that that's where we come from. That's where we stand on. That's where we will live our life through that through those things. Okay. What does it mean to be rooted? Figuratively becomes stable. Yeah. So, like, first of all, being rooted gives us the picture of being steadfast, being stable, being in one place, like you're not moving. You're not changing your perspective. You're not changing your, you know, like foundations, because when you make a foundation strong, you know, the building is strong, building is not shifting, right? It's not shaky. So to be rooted is that, but also when we, when you look at, when you look at, okay, drawing from the plant or a tree and you say it's rooted, it is drawing nutrition. Not only is it established in one place, not only is it, you know, making firm in one place, but it's also drawing life and on drawing nutrition, everything, you know, for the growing of the plant or bearing fruit, everything comes from that place, right? So, so when we say rooted in Him, right? So it means that it means very practically, if you want to live our life, you're saying, I'm drawing, you know, I'm drawing what this is required for my life from Him, right, from Jesus, from the person of the Lord Jesus, you know, that's, that's very important. So, which means that my life revolves, in other words, you know, we're saying, okay, Jesus at the center, we sing it, I know, Jesus at the center of my life, which means choices, decisions, everything, I, I'm referring, you know, I'm basing it on Jesus, I'm referring to Jesus. So, this is a big part of my life, right? It's not something that I add on, but really He's at the center, the core of my life, right? So, it also means that I'm living a word-centered life, right? A word-centered life, because He's the living word, right? So, if my roots are going to be in Him, I'm living a word-centered life, okay? And it's a beautiful thing, right, to really live a word-centered life. It's a God-honoring thing to live a word-centered life, right? So, we are saying, okay, it's, it's not just, you know, I'm just looking at the notes, it's not just about the church or denomination, but it's really about the person of Lord Jesus, you know, that's the thing. You know, so our friendship with Him, our intimacy with Him, you know, everything is revolving around Jesus, okay? So, that is my intimacy with the Lord, you know, leads to a walk of freedom, right? That we where we will, we don't want to displease Him, we're out of love for Him, we don't want to displease Him, we don't want to do anything to, you know, to, you know, it's like sometimes you sense that close, I remember, you know, a couple, last two Sundays, actually, you know, I said, Lord, I don't want to do anything to lose out on this closeness that I feel, you know, it was doing the worship, and I just felt, you know, so much of things that the Lord did in my heart, where I felt the closeness with Jesus, and I said, God, I don't want to lose this out, I don't want to say anything, do anything, Lord, to lose that sense of closeness. But the same thing happened, you know, I was just preaching, and I just felt this sense of closeness with the Lord. And again, I remember making that prayer or just, you know, just in my heart saying, God, I don't want to ever lose that closeness, lose that close friendship, I don't want to do anything, I don't want to not do anything in order to, you know, lose that. And I remember Todd White, you know, I mean, have you seen Todd White videos and, right? So Todd White, majorly into drugs, you know, yeah, but his old past life was, you know, drug dealer, drug addict, and completely wasted life, you know. So he talks about how when he came to Jesus, the sense of cleansing that he experienced, the sense of closeness that he had with the Lord. And so he's in this drug rehab, Christian drug rehab, called Teen Challenge, started by Dave Wilkerson. And so how many of you read Dave Wilkerson's book? Run, Baby Run, Nicky Cruise. Yeah, you should read, yeah, these are classics, really, you know, about actually revival in the, you know, what you would call as the inner city, in the US, it talks about. But, you know, I think it's something that you guys, I mean, we should, all of us should read, very inspiring, right? So anyway, so he was in that drug rehab, and he came to the Lord, and he comes to the Lord, he's had this amazing supernatural, you know, freedom from drugs, no, no, what do you call, they call it cold turkey, no after effects, right? No cravings, nothing, right? Nothing at all, just like that, he is delivered of drugs. But more than that, his mind is clear, that he's not, he's not oppressed, right, in his mind. And it so happened that one day, you know, in a van, they go to some church, and, you know, they, all the others are there in the van, and then they see some girls by this roadside, and the others are like whistling and waving to the girls, you know, they're all drug rehab, right? But he's not so much even turning in the direction, because he says, I don't want to lose that sense of purity and holiness that I'm experiencing now, because for years, he has been in drugs, for years, he has been in so much of, you know, junk, and the Lord has delivered him, right? So, so being rooted is to have a sense of that, saying, God, you know, I don't want to lose this sense of closeness, I don't want to, you know, displease you in any way, and I've experienced your love, I don't want, I just want to continue delighting in you, right? So, more than, you know, strategies, step one, step two, step three, all that is good, all that is good, right? Being led by God, renewing our minds, all that is scriptural, good. But the core of it is, God, I don't want to displease you, you know, I don't want to lose this friendship, I don't want to displease you, right? Okay. So, some practical things are to sever, which means to cut away ungodly influences, right? The Lord Jesus talked about that, hey, if your hand, if your eyes causing you to sin, pluck it out. You know, typically, if all of us would be, have to obey it, you know, everybody's going out with eyes gouged out, says if your hand causes you to sin, cut it out. The idea is this, be surgical, be clinical, be surgical, when it comes to, you know, sinful influence or temptation, be surgical about it, because you know that it is going to cost death, right? So, so that's what, you know, we sever, we cut away all ungodly influences. When you know something is, something is poison, you will not go after it, right? You know, you know, but something, when people say, okay, it is bad, it is poison, please do not, you will not, at least, you know, I think most people will not. But then we see in the world, yeah, want to try it and see, hey, actually, it's not poison, right? You see on a cigarette packet that it's written there, it is injurious to hell. You know, it is cancer-causing, it has star, it has, you know, nicotine and all these are deadly substances. The roads are paved with, but you're putting it in your lungs, right? So, there's some people, you know, continue to do that, but then, you know, you will not, if you know that it's something is wrong and it is causing death in you, you would not touch it, right? Okay, so the thing is to stay consecrated. The thing is to have that clinical attitude in our minds, you know, in our hearts saying, okay, hey, this is, this is like poison, I'm not going to try it out. This is causing death in me, I don't want to go. And this is causing me to lose my friendship or it changes the friendship with God, sense of fellowship and closeness that I have, I don't want to, you know, get into that, right? Okay. Any questions? So, crucifying the flesh is that, right? We looked at a few things about renewing our minds. We looked at being led by the Spirit. We also looked at, you know, how by the Spirit we put to death the things of the body, right? So it comes, it is not convenient. It is not comfortable. It is, yes, painful at times, but, you know, that's the thing. And I just want to, you know, say one thing that is this word being consistent, being consistent, you know, that's the thing, like being consistent in it, being disciplined enough to be consistent. Now, that's a challenge for a lot of people because being consistent means when it's raining, when it's not raining, all weather, being consistent is when I'm happy, when I'm sad, when I'm in great mood, and I'm in a bad, foul mood, being consistent is in all times that I choose to walk like this. That's the thing. Because if we would do that, if we would make that shift and say, you know, no matter what, I'm going to do it because if you see successful people, if you see achievers in all things, you know, if you look at sports, if you look at, you know, whatever area you see that there's one thing in their life and that is consistent, being consistent, that builds strength, that builds character, that is where, you know, all our victories, we are shaped for victory, we are positioned for victory, and we are consistent, right? And the Bible has a word for it, it says be steadfast, do not grow weary while doing good, be steadfast, continue on, and Hebrews 12 talks about it, says run the race with, yeah, perseverance or endurance, have that stamina, run with endurance. Why, what happened? So that's the thing, it's another word, yes, perseverance, run with that. So don't give up. So that's one, one key quality if we would, if we would make up our minds, you know, if we would decide, like when we choose, we are, when we make a decision, we would actually do it to be consistent. And the fact is this, it's not just us, the Holy Spirit is with us to help us, right? And then, you know, we can, no matter what, we set our minds to, with the help of the Holy Spirit, yes, we can achieve it, right? Okay, which takes us to the next topic, okay, which is living daily with the renewed mind. Okay, I just want to say that renewed, daily with the, living with the renewed mind is such a delight, right? Such a delight, right? Where your mind is so strong that it rejects lies, right? Your mind is so renewed, sorry, not strong, renewed that it attracts or receives the truth, absorbs the truth, okay? So we looked at those verses, Romans 12 verses one and two, the proof of the renewed mind, what is the proof of the renewed mind? Anyone? No, no, the proof of the, yeah, we say that, okay, mind is renewed in one area, what is the proof of that? Changed what? Change? Yeah, change behavior, change living, right? So that's the thing, so it's a visible change in the way we live, right? It could be in words, it could be in action, it could be, you know, however we process things, so the proof of the renewed mind is transformed behavior, transformed living, right? So that's why Paul says B transformed, yeah, Nina has written transformed life, so B transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that's the proof, right? That's the proof of the renewed mind, okay? So it is important for us to live daily in that place, living daily in a transformed mind, okay? Efficiency 4 and verse 23, it says, be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that you put on the new man which was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness, okay? That you put on this new man which means that, you know, this understanding of who you are in Christ Jesus, that you are a new creation, let that renew your mind, be renewed in the spirit of your mind, okay? So it's taking on the thoughts and ways of God, like we discussed, taking on the attitudes of Christ, Philippians 2 talks about how he took on the form of a born servant, right? Though he was God of all creation, he kept that aside and took on the form of a born servant when he came on, came to the earth, okay? It also means taking on the knowledge of God who has made me a new person, okay? So daily to walk, to live with a renewed mind, okay? So, you know, as believers, you know, as people who are, you know, getting equipped, trained for ministry, but this is a key thing, right? This is a key, key thing to live daily with a renewed mind and it will actually build so much of strength, it will stabilize so many areas in our lives where we are thinking that, oh, this area, you know, I go down very quickly in the sense, emotionally, I just go down, it just pulls me down, well, living with a renewed mind daily, making that decision, making that choice actually will stabilize and establish our life, okay? And we will see victories in areas that we thought that we will never see victories, guaranteed, right? We will see victories and we will see so much of spiritual growth and maturity and it will be so shocking, you know, so it will be unrecognizable. That's why the Bible says, be transformed, it uses the word metamorphosis, radical change, radical change in behavior and that will be, that is definitely possible, okay? So what does it involve? What does it take? Okay? First of all, it is a continuous process, okay? It's a continuous process which means it's a lifestyle, it is day in and day out. What process is it of receiving revelation, renewing, you know, taking on certain things, leaving out certain things when it comes to the knowledge of God, when it comes to the thoughts and ways of God, His attitude, everything, attitude of Christ, right? It's a continuous thing, okay? It is also a process of the conquest of the mind, right? Whatever we learnt, taking every thought captive, developing a positive mindset, renewing a mind, right? All that is there, right? And it is also, thirdly, learning, sorry, conquest meaning victory, who's a conqueror, right? He's the one who's victorious, so a conquest in a battle is one who's victorious in the battle, so a conquest of the mind because the mind is a battlefield, that's why, you know, conquest of the mind. So it is a process, a continuous process, right? So we can have simple things like, we can say simple, you know, we get up in the morning and you say, okay, today is, you know, when it comes to a positive mindset, today is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. You start the day like that, right? And you say, okay, my mind will be renewed with the truth of God's word. The whole of today, my mind is going to be renewed with the truth of God's word. I'm going to reject the lies, deceptions of the enemy. I'm going to receive the truth of God's word and I'm going to, my mind is going to be so strong and established in the truth of God's word. Like, you start the day with that, right? Okay, so we looked at conquest of the mind. The third area is to avoid the pitfall of presumption, which means that we balance reason. No, this is a challenge, right? Reason, having renewed mind, the leading of the Holy Spirit and avoiding presumption. So presumption is, you know, I assume something to be through or right when it's not. I presume. Yeah, it's my own. It's a, you know, it's not an established truth, but I presume it. I presume that, okay, I will do this or else I will make the mistake again and then we see it's happening. Can I presume that you fear something will, you know, something like that? Yeah, see, sorry. Yeah, so presumption actually means that, see, I kind of, you know, the Google says that it's assuming something to be true when it's not. So, you know, saying that, okay, something is the truth is stating something is the truth when it's not. So that is presumption. So what you're saying is, you know, having an expectation that something will go wrong, having an expectation some that I will fail, fail kind of a thing. So, so that's slightly different. Yeah. Okay, so, so the thing is this that, you know, when we, when our mind is renewed, okay, we have a mind is renewed to God's word, okay, we are led by the Spirit of God. And we also have what is called renewed reasoning. Okay, we can actually reason with our minds according to the carnality of our mind, according to fleshly thinking, right, or we can actually reason and it can be a spiritual reasoning according to a spiritual mind, right. Now, the thing is that God gave us the ability to reason, no doubt about it, to analyze things, to come to certain conclusions, to weigh the advantages and disadvantages, right. He's given us the reason, he's given us the ability to reason, right. And, you know, several scriptures like Proverbs 13, 16, every prudent man acts with knowledge, right, but a fool lays opens his folly. Proverbs 19, 2, it's not good for a soul to be without knowledge, okay. Proverbs 24, 6, by wise counsel, you will wage your own war and so on, right. So, God is not accept, is not opposed or he's not opposite of reasoning, he's not opposed to reasoning, using our mind wisdom. But the thing is this, when we reason, we reason with the renewed mind, okay. So, that's the thing, right. We can either reason in a very pessimistic way and but are we reasoning with the renewed mind, right. So, reasoning is okay, right. To be led by the Spirit, right, it is fine. And when we led by the Spirit, so this is what sometimes happens when we are led by the Spirit and the Spirit Holy Spirit leads us to do certain things which goes against basic reasoning. Yes or no? Yeah, it happens. Like the supernatural is above the natural, right. So, when we are reasoning with our experience and practical wisdom, it seems unreasonable. Seems unreasonable, like for example, some of the examples are in the book of John, right. Lord Jesus says, okay, fill the water pots with water at the wedding at Canna, right. Fill the water pots with water. Now, draw them out. He hasn't done anything. He says, now draw them out, serve it. He tells Peter, right. Peter, he switched all night but Peter says, okay, now go into the deep, let your, let your net down for a catch, right. Now, who's the fisherman? It's Peter. Who's the man with the experience? He's Peter. So, it goes against all reasoning for Peter because I fished all night, like maybe 12 hours, maybe, I don't know. And I'm tired and you're saying, do the same thing again but then he does it, right. So, some of these things are, we need to understand that, okay. It goes beyond our practical, you know, wisdom or even sometimes self-preservation, right. For Peter, he says, if you are Lord, you allow, you know, you command me to walk, he says. And then Jesus says, commands him. And then he starts walking on water, right. So, that is true. You know, why it will, it will not, you know, when we say, I'm reasonable man, I'm a man of reason, I'm a man of logic, he doesn't fit into that compartment, right. It goes beyond that, okay. So, we need to understand that. Yeah, sometimes we need to suspend our logic and reason. When we are very sure that, yes, this is the Holy Spirit who is reading, you know, one example that happened is for me, like I was working in sales, right. I was working in sales and at one point, I think this was the second company that I worked with, or third company, sorry, I worked with. And I was actually selling some very high, highly priced toys, like, I don't know if you remember Hot Wheels, those, yeah, Hot Wheels, those cars, right, small cars, right. So, so cars are the, that was a starting item, basic item. It was those times it was 50 rupees, now it's I think 150, 200 and all that. Yeah, so it had all these things. So, it not only had, you know, all these loops and everything, very interesting, but it also had some, you know, some highly priced ones, like it had jets, planes, which you could launch into the air. And it was each, those days, I'm talking about many years back, those days it was some 1000 bucks each toy, right. Parents were buying that and giving it for their kids. It was 1000 that night. So, it was big money. I'm talking about more than 20 years back, right. So, and the thing is this dealer, he ordered, he ordered one. I don't know, you know, some mismatch in the way I sent the order, no, sorry, yeah, he ordered 10 of those, but he ordered only the planes. He ordered only the planes and he said, I want 10. The planes are half the cost, 499 or something. This one is 1000 bucks, 999. It's the launcher which comes with the plane, etc. So, I thought it was, so he said, you know, I need 10 of those. So, I ordered the big one. So, he's gone, and he says, you take it back. Now, my company was very, very strict against taking back sales returns as they called, taking back. No chance, you know, you get penalized, you get this thing. And so, I was like, God, what do I do? I'm actually new in the organization and I didn't want to face my boss and then I said, I just somehow, you know, asked him, have you seen Sapphire toys? It used to be on Brigade Road on Corner Shop. Now, it's on, it's near the lifestyle, you know, I think. It's the biggest owner. So, that's the owner. So, I'm telling him, please keep it for one week. I'm just begging him, please keep it one week. He says, no, no, take it back. I don't want to take it. So, please keep it for one week. After one week, if it doesn't sell, I'll take it back. So, then I'm thinking, God, what do I do now? Okay. He said, okay. So, he's fine. So, I went there and I'm just looking at the shelf, you know, one day in the morning, no shoppers. And then I'm looking at everything. And suddenly, I get this sense of God saying, put your hands on the toys and declare, declare it to be sold in Jesus' name. Okay. So, I'm there and then, God, is it you? Is it just my thinking? And you know, I'm just learning about faith and all that. And then I said, okay, God, I'll do it. Okay. So, I just made sure nobody was watching. I put my hands on the, on these toys on the shelf and said, be sold in Jesus' name. Be sold this week in the name of Jesus. Okay. And then it turned out nobody was there. But then suddenly I saw there's a CCTV. So, I don't know. Okay. Maybe he was watching or not. Then I just left the place. Then he calls me. You know, he calls me every Monday he'll call and, you know, I get the order and everything. Monday he calls me and said, hey, you know, JK, he sold everything. He sold each one of them. So, I need more. So, this time you give me 10. 10 of that only you give me. I sold each and every piece. Wow. So, the thing is, you know, I was very happy it worked and everything. But the thing is, it goes beyond reasoning. Right. So, it goes beyond reasoning. Spirit is going to say, you lay hands and declare it be sold. So, I didn't learn it in management school. Didn't learn it from the, what this is what. So, some of the, some of the things goes beyond outside of our reasoning, outside of our experience. Yes, that is true. Right. So, speaking specific instructions, etc. But, you know, we need to, I mean, just coming to that thing of, you know, presumption. Right. When we come to presumption, we are assuming God said this and we are going ahead and trying it out. It's not based on the leading of the Spirit. It's not based on, well, it could even be based on the Word of God. Say, I see a biblical principle there. And, you know, I want to do it. So, that's what presumption is. Okay. So, just going, just, you know, to, before we go that, go there into presumption. So, when we talk about the reasoning, okay, our reasoning, and when we, when we reason it helps us to live in this world, our renewed mind is able to keep this whole reasoning thing in subjection to the Word of God, a renewed mind. Right. So, we say, okay, my mind is renewed to the truth of God's Word. Am I reasoning and logic? You know, if they're saying, no, don't. But, my renewed mind brings that in subjection to the truth of God's Word. Right. Reasoning and logic and so on. So, I'm able to exercise faith. Otherwise, I will not be able to exercise faith, because if, if the reasoning and logic kicks in and says, don't, don't confess, just, you know, cancel it out. I won't be able to exercise faith. Right. But now, because of the mind being renewed to the truth of the revelation of God's Word, I'm able, we're able to exercise, actually exercise faith, like believe for the impossible. Okay. So, that's something that we need to understand. Right. So, we, it leads us, opens a door for the supernatural work of God in our lives. Right. Okay. Now, coming to, some coming to presumption. Okay. So, we are assuming something is true. We are assuming that we have heard God. We are assuming that, well, this is what God has spoken. Right. So, it's a very subjective thing. Right. When, when a person is presuming something. Right. We, we say, okay, I've heard from God. I, you know, specific instruction. And this actually happened. Right. There was this couple who, who were newly married. Okay. So, both of them said, God is calling us to resign our jobs and go to Delhi. No, not minutes. Go to Delhi. Okay. And there, God wants us to like start to work and also, you know, carry a vice, you know, that he will open new doors that we will, you know, we will work and then we will do ministry. So, both of them very strong, you know, saying that this is what God has said, but they went there and they, you know, nothing happened. But by the time they had already resigned, whatever work they had, they were in good jobs, very high paying jobs and, you know, very sincere believers. Right. But they just felt, I don't know, maybe, you know, we can't judge. Right. Where they went wrong, how they went wrong. Maybe they were excited. Maybe they were so adventurous and they wanted to do, you know, so zealous. Right. Zealous to do God's work. But this is what happened. Right. So, there was a specific, they saw that, okay, this is a specific instruction. God has given us this thing, we need to go. And it took them years to, you know, get back to whatever was, whatever were the damages. Right. Because both of them lost their jobs. It took some time to get back. So they had to come back, live in their parents' home or something like that happened. And then one person got a job, the other person did not. And oops. And so it took them a while to get back to normalcy. Right. And so on. So we need to understand that the presumption is not something that God wants us to live in. Yeah. Okay. So pastor, like, how we can distinguish between, like, especially from this example, even at like, sometimes even we may feel like, okay, or this is the work that God was calling me to do. This is what God is asking me to do. And sometimes it can be presumption also. Yeah. So how we can distinguish. So how do we distinguish between our own feelings and, you know, yeah. So God will confirm it. Right. When we ask God for confirmation, He will confirm. He will confirm it. Is there again through His word? Take you back to the word, take you back to the promise. He will again confirm it through supernatural means maybe, maybe a dream, a vision, a prophetic word, a word of knowledge, whatever. He will again confirm it through the body, the people. Right. That's why we have a fellowship with other believers and God. So whatever He has spoken, He can even confirm. He confirms with people whom you have a covenant relationship with, like, maybe a spouse, family member, right, someone who is a, who you have a covenant relationship with. Like God speaks and gives it one us of heart and confirms that. Right. So we have all these safeguards. Actually, if our heart is really, you know, posture towards God and we have all these safeguards, but the thing is when we go beyond that, right, when we, when we don't consider these safeguards and in our zeal, you know, I'm not saying that, you know, people, why do people presume some things? It's, it's because of the zeal. It's because of the, you know, they are so enthusiastic about it. They want to do it because they love for God, you know, the thing is, and then they forget to be wise in their zeal. So that's the thing. Yeah. So when we have zeal to do God's word, we, yeah, our intention is to do something. Yeah. But the thing is, will God not honor the zeal? Yeah, out of the zeal. I'm just, you, I'm just saying it because you're not using the mic. Okay. When we have zeal and when we want to do something for God, obviously God will, will God not, will God, if like out of my zeal, I want to do something for God, I want to do something. But if God was not leading me there, if it is not what he wants me to do, but out of my zeal, I want to do something. Will God honor it and will God make it to come to pass or will he stop it? So can you be specific? Like out of the zeal, what is it that you want to do? Like? Like a meeting or one youth can. Yeah. So you, you're, you know, you have a zeal, you have a desire, okay, I want to do this God. And so the thing is to check the motives of your heart. Okay, why is it that you have a zeal? You know, the motive is actually, you know, you have a burden for the, burden for the people, burden for the youth, and you want to do it. Yes. And you go to God and say, you know, let's say, God just gives the approval, you know, God confirms certain things, God gives the resources, you know, gives the thing and then you go ahead and do it. But what if God is, you know, kind of checking as in check, when I say check, you know, God is raising a red flag. He's saying, God, God is saying, don't do it. And then you continue to do that. Okay. So the fruitfulness, because of the word, because of the Spirit, there will be some kind of fruit for sure. Because God's word works. But is that what God really wanted me to do? Maybe not. But it still, it still happens. And, you know, these things, okay, these are certain things which are, okay, which means, you know, there are not, let's say, like critical consequences. But there are some things, some decisions, which we take, like relocating to another place, letting go of what I'm doing right now. I'm sorry. Yeah, things like marriage. Yeah. So where I'm just resuming. I'm saying, okay, God, you know, it's a nice person. Yeah. Unbelievable. No, no, no, nice person, noble person. And then one day I know that by the way I live, that person will come to Jesus. It's one way of evangelizing. That's a great presumption. That's a great presumption. It has its consequences. So that's the thing, you know, some things are very, some decisions, consequences are very critical. Some may not. And by the grace of God, you know, even those things are kind of, I don't know, by the grace of God, he kind of restores and reconciles and, yeah. But the thing, you know, the best thing to do is not to get into presumption. Okay. So what can be our safeguard? That is what we want to look at. Right? Safeguard is, you know, one that's known as five, where Paul writes to the Southern Church and then he says, don't despise prophecies. Okay. So there can be, which means that there was an abuse of it in the early church. So he is, again, warning the, warning us. He's warning the Thessalonian church. And he's saying, don't, you know, don't despise prophecies, right? One Thessalonians five. Okay. I think it starts from 16, right? There's an instruction that you can rejoice always, pray without seizing. And everything gives thanks, give thanks for this is the will of God and Christ is for you. Do not quench the spirit. Do not despise prophecies. So do not quench the work of the spirit. It's like throwing water in the fire, right, where the fire is burning. So don't put out the fire of the Holy Spirit. That's what he's saying. Don't quench the spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Okay. Then verse 21 he says, test all things. Test all things. Test the prophecy. Don't despise it and reject it. Test all things. Look at the next one. Hold fast to what is good. Okay. So you test it and you hold fast, which means get a good grip on what is good. When you're testing, you get, you see, okay, this is good. Get a strong grip on it. Hold fast. What does it also mean? It means don't hold fast to what is not good. When you're testing, you see that certain things are good. When you're testing, you see that certain things are not good meaning. They are not of God. They are just a work of the flesh, maybe, or maybe it's just a good intention. Maybe it's a presumption. Hold fast to what is good. What is of the truth? What is of the spirit? Release. That is what it means. The second part of it, it's not stated, but that is what it means. What is unstated is release or don't hold fast. Don't hold tightly to what is not good. But you test it. So we test all things. Test the leading of the spirit. God has God spoken. As God said, test it. It is our responsibility to test it. And God, being God, he will confirm. God will confirm. God's word will agree with it. And certain things are like, what if it's a good thing? It's a good thing, but still, should I test it? Yes. Okay, then the second one is, get Godly counsel. So it's just the body, the wisdom of God, people as God has put people around us, why to speak into our lives. So we can get Godly counsel. There could be certain places, there could be what we can call as blind spots, where we are not aware of our own lives. It's good to be self aware. We studied that. We need to be self aware yesterday, but certain things are hidden from us. We think, oh, I'm a great guy. Certain things are hidden. We can't see it. And we're not able to reach that place. It's like some place when your back is scratching, itching, and you're trying your best, but you're not able to reach. And you say, Hey, can you just scratch here? You need that other person to scratch your back. So it's like that, getting Godly counsel. We are, we are prone to having blind spots in our lives, but Godly wisdom. And a safe thing would be, especially when it comes to very critical things and, you know, like life changing things, life altering decisions, we're at major crossroads in life. Wait for confirmation. Wait for confirmation. Second Confidence 131 talks about it by the mouth of two or three witnesses. Every word is established. So get confirmation. And, and the basic thing is this, you know, to listen to God in the small things, right? Learn from, like, there are things that God leads when we, you know, maybe in the smaller things, meaning that even if I make a mistake in this, the consequences are not lethal or life damaging, right? So learn to trust God in the small things so that when we continue to have a lifestyle of trusting God in the small things, when we come to those big crossroads, you know, we have already built up this library of testimonies, you know, this library of experiences of being led by God and we are so intimate being with the ways of God and with the voice of God and, and that whole process of testing, of getting counsel, of getting confirmation, you know, we are doing that, right? We are in the process of doing it so that when it comes to those big crossroads, it doesn't seem it's like a struggle or a, or a, you know, something like a conflict or something that you, but this is what you're used to, right? This is what you do, right? Okay. So presumption leads to confusion, sometimes error and, and because of which there could even be a rejection of truth and all kinds of damages, right? Emotionally, etc., right? All kinds of this couple that I talked about went through a season of difficulty challenge, right? Financially, emotionally and they are newly married, right? They are just adjusting with each other, setting up a home, you know, you can just imagine the pressure they're going through, right? So presumption actually leads to all that. So the way to come out of it is to recognize, hey, I was wrong. You know, that's the thing, you know, I was wrong, take responsibility for, you know, whatever it is that we were wrong with, whatever mistake we have made and be willing to work through it, right? Work through the changes that we need to make. So in this case, they got back, they relocated back to where they started from, started to look for a job, you know, got the job and things, things took on, things turned out well after that, right? So that's, that's the thing. That's how we come out of the presumption, come out of the consequences of presumption, okay? Okay, I guess we'll stop here, right? And then, yeah, we'll continue next class. Maybe there might be some questions on this. You could make a note of it, keep it, we will learn, I mean, we'll address it the next class. And after this, I think there's one more section and then we'll, we'll finish with that, right? Okay. Okay. All right, thank you. God bless.